John Linton ........demonstrating the inadequate grasps of Australia's communications infrastructures and currently operate, how they might operate and, of course, why they have never operated very well at all in the 100 or so years of 'federated control'. You may have gathered that I have tried to bring myself up to date with the various 'public figure's' reactions to that announcement by the federal government that they had signed a deal with Telstra that removes two of the more obvious road blocks to the widely predicted doomed to fail 'NBN2'. I did do that while Annette better occupied her time watching Nadal play his opening Wimbledon match - a perhaps more predictable end score than has proven possible for the 'NBN2' so far.
It appears to me that for all the thousands of column inches since the Sunday 'announcement' not a single commentator/expert/whatever has made a single few words of pronouncement/analysis/prediction that demonstrates they have the slightest idea of what the ongoing political processes of turning over the base infrastructure used to deliver residential data services actually means in any way whatsoever. I really don't care, either personally or as part of the management of Exetel, what happens to this unedifying three ring circus called "the communications debate" - the people allegedly participating in it demonstrate so little knowledge or understanding the end result is an inevitable fiasco. It simply can't work and the drover's dog knows more about Australia's current and future needs for communications infrastructures than the people who injected themselves in the "national debate". If you think I'm wrong in that assessment please check the background, knowledge and credentials of anyone who makes a statement that appears in print.
Every single thing I have read from the 80 or so people quoted in the Australian media has been hopelessly wrong - particularly the prime minister and the minister for the tectonic society whose utterances are so ludicrous it sounds like they are lampooning themselves.
Two things in commerce, for the past 4,500 years remain immutable:
1) A commercial monopoly in the provision of any product or service ensures that the end user pays the highest possible price for it
2) A government monopoly in the provision of any product or service ensures that the end user pays the highest possible price for it - and that it is of the lowest possible quality.
I thought that was the reason the Labor Party first insisted that Telecom Australia should be privatised?......and that was over twenty years ago.
Again, if you think I'm incorrect in those assumptions please point out where 1) and 2) above were not the case since 2,500 BCE.
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